The city in the classical and post-classical world : changing contexts of power and identity / edited by Claudia Rapp, H.A. Drake

• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014
• Ano de Publicação: 2014
• Edição: First published
• Idioma: English
• Classification: 15.27 - Griechische Welt; 15.28 - Römisches Reich; 15.29 - Byzantinisches Reich
• Descrição Física: xiii, 265 Seiten; Illustrationen
• Observações: Literaturangaben

"This volume examines the evolving role of the city and citizenship from classical Athens through fifth-century Rome and medieval Byzantium. Beginning in the first century CE, the universal claims of Hellenistic and Roman imperialism began to be challenged by the growing role of Christianity in...